Stubby Clapp, the two-time defending Pacific Coast League Manager of the Year, is headed to St. Louis. On Monday, the Cardinals announced Clapp's hire as the team's new first base coach.

Clapp joins a Cardinals staff with multiple coaches that have ties to the Redbirds. Manager Mike Shildt was the manager in Memphis in 2015-16. Pop Warner, St. Louis' third base coach, served as the Redbirds' skipper from 2012-14. Assistant hitting coach Mike Budaska was the hitting coach in Memphis from 2008-18. Bullpen coach Bryan Eversgerd served as the Redbirds' pitching coach from 2013-17.

In two seasons as Memphis' manager, Clapp went 174-107 (.619), and the team won the 2017 and 2018 Pacific Coast League Championships and the 2018 Triple-A National Championship. The 174 wins between two regular seasons were the most in a two-year span by Memphis clubs since 1933-34.